page_title: Southern Polytechnic State University
section_title: Student media
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Polytechnic State University / Student life / Student media
caption_attribution_description: Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus, The Rock
context_page_description: Southern Polytechnic State University was a public, co-educational, state university in Marietta, Georgia, United States approximately 20 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. Until 2015, it was an independent part of the University System of Georgia and called itself "Georgia's Technology University."
  Southern Tech was established in 1948 as The Technical Institute in Chamblee, Georgia. The first classes were held with 116 students. It was renamed the Southern Technical Institute in 1949 and moved to its present campus in Marietta, Georgia in 1962. It went through another name change in 1987 and became the Southern College of Technology. In the summer of 1996, the university adopted its polytechnic name. It was one among a small group of polytechnic universities in the United States that tend to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences.
  On November 1, 2013, plans were announced by the Georgia Board of Regents for Southern Polytechnic and Kennesaw State University to be consolidated into one university.
context_section_description: Southern Polytechnic historically had three student-run media outlets: a college radio station, a student newspaper, and a yearbook.
  WGHR (Green Hornet Radio), the campus radio station, was a non-commercial educational station that began as "WSTB" in 1969 on carrier current AM, then became licensed as WGHR at 102.5 on the FM dial in 1981, moving to 100.7 in 1998.  The station's broadcast license was canceled in 2001 because two commercial radio stations were allowed to take those FM frequencies, without compensation to the station or the school. WGHR continued to webcast after the cancellation.  The station's radio studios and office were located in the student center. According to the SPSU Student Handbook,  WGHR offered interested students an opportunity to gain broadcast and technical experience.
  Southern Tech's first student newspaper was published under the title The Technician in September 1948. The publication changed titles several times, first to The Engineering Technician (beginning with the issue of February 20, 1964), then Whatsizname? (beginning with the issue of September 24, 1973), Southern Seeds (only one issue on October 15, 1975); Unnamed (styled ?, two issues beginning October 22, 1975), and finally The Sting (beginning with the issue of November 5, 1975). With the consolidation of Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University in January 2015, student publications were integrated, and The Sting merged with KSU's publication The Talon to create a new campus lifestyle publication (published under the title The Sting. The Sting was later retitled The Peak with the September 2016 issue.
  The Technician's Log (often shortened to The Log) was the yearbook for Southern Tech. Its first volume was published in 1949, and the final volume was published in 1997.
caption: The Rock, on January 20, 2017
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